Drunk man violently resisted arrest, court told
Brandon Chase, 23 of St Paul's Bay, was today placed under probation for three years after he admitted to having sprained the wrist of a policewoman and resisted arrested while drunk.
Police Inspector Martin Sammut told the court that Mr Chase had gone to a staff party at a hotel and then went drinking at a bar in Paceville While he was drunk he tried to get a taxi but found himself in Swieqi.
The police received a call about a man lying on the pavement in Swieqi and they took him to the police station in St Julians, where they told him that once he was sober, he would be released.
On hearing this, he ran out of the station and up the road, The police ran after him and tried to arrest him. He resisted violently, but they restrained him and re-arrested him.
Legal Procurator Peter Paul Zammit, appearing for the accused, told the court that his client could not even remember being arrested.
Inspector Sammut said the accused was very sorry for his actions and had apologised to the police officers involved.
Magistrate Gabriella Vella, for whom this was the first arraignment, placed the accused under three years probation after considering that he had entered an early guilty plea and had no prior convictions.
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marthese mussett
Dec 9th 2009, 23:01
He lives up to his surname.The police had to CHASE him up the road.
Trevor Lorenzo Mizzi
Dec 9th 2009, 19:26
@Miguel Micallef,
The double standard is there because anyone can grow a simple herb in their backyard and Big Pharma and the huge alcohol beverage industry could lose billions of euros in profit.
The politicians and the judicial system are there to protect these vested moneyed interests and not the rights of you and I.
Cannabis is not destructive like alcohol is for the powers that be, and also has the added danger
to these power moguls, of the possibility of opening up the public's consciousness as aptly stated by the author Graham Hancock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IVNZeFquW4
J.Davidson
Dec 9th 2009, 16:25
It looks as if the festive Spirit started a couple of weeks early for this bloke, One should go to England there the festive spirtis are 24x7 and the police have rather a hand full especially on a saturday night at the Locarno clubs, the worst are the women all splaterred and flaked out all over the pavements, not knowing whether its night or day until the next day...sick as a pig. rather them then me, i learned my lesson.
Charles Micallef
Dec 9th 2009, 15:34
Another episode in the life of someone who could not drink and behave himself at the same time............. someone else who forget that alcohol is there to be enjoyed and not abused!
Claire Busuttil
Dec 9th 2009, 15:03
Meta se jibdew isiru kontrolli bis serjeta mil pulizija, dwar il livell tal alcohol!!!
Miguel Micallef
Dec 9th 2009, 14:17
I wonder how alcohol is legal when so many people report 'not even remembering or knowing' what was going on.
These things do not happen on, say, marijuana yet our government is dead set on spending tax payers' money to arrest students with a joint or two.
Why the double standard?